Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Miscellany.

The cover of Larry Correia's Hard Magic is pretty cool, but the woman is holding what appears to be a rubber dog turd glowing with Cherenkov radiation. While I am sure that is not what it is supposed to be, you never know with Larry.

Readers of internet gun forums should brace for the influx of txtspeaking members of DEVGRU, as the tens of thousands of sixteen-year-old veterans of this elite unit surface to supplant Clearasil-using SFOD-D members as the most common variant of Counterstrike Kiddie on the 'net.

I like how the media is giving the double tap this sort of mystical appeal. I heard on an ABC report about how the operator "gave the weapon a *slight pause* "double tap" of the trigger". It makes me laugh.

Who can even notice the atomic dog poop, what with that major distraction on the front cover?!?

Clearly the guy in the back has had a failure to fire, as the bolt is closed on his Thompson Gun, and his finger is on the trigger! He needs to clear that round and get back into the fight quick! Or at least rack the bolt back so that he can get a new magazine into it.

Depends on the publisher... but also on how easy it'd be for the author to tell the publisher to fuck off after an embarrasing cover.

Some writers, like Greg Egan.. they decide what kind of cover their book will have, that it will have no blurbs, etc. He isn't a major seller, I doubt his books sell more than a 100,000 copies per book , but a lot of people like his books and buy them on sight.

So he either talked or has browbeaten his publisher into giving in to his demands..

When I ran my eyes over 'DEVGRU', my first thought was 'what does Soviet military intelligence have to do with...' and then I remembered that it was 2011, that there haven't been any Soviets or GRU for 20 years, and felt...old.